Ubuntu has gone!

[Derek Broughton]

Juan De Mola wrote:

Please don't top post, it makes it hard to have a conversation.

> Your opinion is good, valid and welcomed but I don't share this.
> 
> The idea of a new dep checker come up after 2 years with the same
> crazy thing: you tell to ubuntu that you don't need something and it
> says you need uninstall n (where n is a separated pack not related or
> related by one or two libs). Example of this is the magical duo
> Evolution Ekiga. If the 1st is uninstalled the 2nd must too.
> 
> It's the perfect logic you say don't need be reviewed?

I certainly _didn't_ say it didn't need to be reviewed - in fact it's
_always_ being reviewed.  Nobody is entirely happy with apt's dependency
resolution, but like Churchill's comment on democracy, "apt is the worst
package management software out there, except for all the rest".

What I said was that your reasoning was faulty.  You've deliberately created
a situation that apt can't handle, and you expect Ubuntu developers to fix
that for you.  If you stick to Ubuntu repositories, apt works.  If you mix
with Debian repositories, who do you _expect_ to fix the problem for you? 
Ubuntu or Debian, and why?

Even so, when it uninstalled all your software you _could_ have told it not
to...
-- 
derek